The development of a methodology to move through cislunar space along fundamental dynamical pathways is relevant to NASA’s goals for a cislunar transportation network. To enable an informed design approach for transfer trajectories departing from or arriving at a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO), higher-period orbits that bifurcate from the NRHO region of the L2 halo orbit family are combined with other known structures, such as other Lagrange point and resonant orbits, in the Earth-Moon neighborhood. As a result of this design strategy, novel impulsive transfer options between NRHOs and distant retrograde orbits that possess predictable geometries are constructed. A strategy to enforce eclipse-free transfers using a path constraint is developed and verified in a higher-fidelity ephemeris model.


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    Title :

    Dynamical Structures Nearby NRHOs with Applications to Transfer Design in Cislunar Space


    Additional title:

    J Astronaut Sci


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2022-06-01


    Size :

    27 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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